General Growth In the Dark, Briefly

General Growth was literally kept in the dark on its return to Wall Street Friday as remade company. The mall’s Chicago headquarters at 110 North Wacker Drive suffered a temporary power outage early this morning after a fire erupted at an electrical vault down the street where there is construction, company spokesman David Keating said, adding that several other buildings on Wacker were also affected.

Company employees made it through the disruption with their BlackBerrys and other handheld devices. “They were well connected,” said Mr. Keating.

The disruption comes on the day when the mall landlord, the nation’s second largest, began preliminary trading of the shares to be issued by a newly configured General Growth when it exits bankruptcy next week.

“All is good,” now, Mr. Keating said, noting they got the word to turn the power back on and the outage occurred before office hours.